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Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
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8:21p
Oh Amazon. You always know how to brighten my day. I went searching for the DSM-IV Manual for Psychology. Nothing bad there! Seems harmless, its just a regular book for Psychology majors, right?
Well, reviewers think differently.
( Depression, the Get Out of Jail Free Card )
Tiny, yes. No verbal back and forth, yes. But I think calling all psychologists criminals just seems to give it a special touch. I didn't know this book was kind of controversial. Lawyers make everything better, though. Oh yes.
current mood: okay
current music: Tenpei Sato - Disgaea 2 - Sinful Rose (86 comments |comment on this)
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10:40p - One's a troll; the other's a dipshit -- together, they take over womens_studies!
So over at ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) womens_studies, things start when our dipshit, politicallydest, who claims to be a feminist man, asks the comm, "why people think once they’re married, they’re obligated to make/have more family-oriented meals". Somehow, this ends up in him arguing about Unitarian Universalism. Our troll, leanne_femme, sees an opportunity, and completely concurs: "Women feel the need to prove themselves and this often occurs in the kitchen/home. It's ridiculous! Women should stop wasting their time on the futile aspects of life and contribute to society in other ways!"
Shortly after this kerfuffle, we get the first "this discussion hurts my feelings" post.
Not to be deterred, leanne_femme continues by informing the comm that "It is a sad reflection on the state of Western societies that (presumably) educated women with an interest in gender theory feel the need to defend the housewife of today." Naturally, the post explodes, with such delights as housewives are all boring Christians and "there's nothing frustrating about working at home" and posting pictures of your kids online is stupid because OMG pedophiles, you bad mother! (Summachos, lit_girl, and elysistrata get bored in that thread and take the time to chat.) OMG you're still a bad mother and a bad feminist!. Oh, hell, that post is a wankparade with more highlights than I can link since LJ's being a bitch.
Then, just in case there was anyone left who hadn't figured out she was a troll, she posts, "Women should stop voicing their thoughts and opinions in internet forums with the intention of starting a heated debate and get back to the cooking, cleaning etc.". Most of the comm yawns and doesn't bite.
Someone else comes to defend feminist stay-at-home-moms with this nice post, in which politicallydest gets into it with elysistrata and tells her, "Lady, you need to read more, think more and be less emotional." Which is what any feminist man would run around saying, right?
Another stay-at-home-mom posts to complain and beg for modly intervention (the mod in this comm appears to be AWOL or pretending the whole comm doesn't exist). This post, too, explodes, mostly because politicallydest pisses on it with "You bore me. I am sure you bore your hubby, too. He just doesn't say it."
Meanwhile, someone makes a new comm, because you just have to when these things go down. There was also apparently some sort of dramatic I'm leaving post, which its poster deleted and took back.
Finally, politicallydest apologises, such as it is, where summachos schools him some more, jenyum is still pissed, and _fauxsilence_ still wants him banned. He says he's leaving, but we all know how those things go in LJ-land.
current mood: Unrepentant
current music: The Dresden Dolls/Sing (12 comments |comment on this)
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